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Abuja, Nigeria, July 11, 2012--A
Gambian judge ordered the arrest of a journalist Tuesday on contempt of court
charges, the third instance of a journalist being detained on such charges in
as many weeks, according to local journalists.

Police arrested Sidiq Asemota, the legal affairs correspondent of the pro-government Daily Observer, while he was on assignment at the High Court in Banjul, the capital, his employer reported. Judge Emmanuel Nkea of the Special Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for Asemota on Monday, news reports said.

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Abuja, Nigeria, June 25, 2012--The
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Gambian authorities to immediately
release or charge a journalist who has been in detention without charge longer
than the country's limit of 72 hours.

Abdulhamid Adiamoh, the managing editor of the Today
newspaper, was arrested
Wednesday in connection with an opinion article, "Counsel sidesteps issues in
cross-examination of [vice chancellor of the University of The Gambia ] Professor
Kah," in which he criticized a defense lawyer in the criminal trial
of a former lecturer at the university.

Authorities jailed six journalists after their publications said President Yahya Jammeh had been insensitive in televised remarks about the unsolved 2004 murder of prominent Gambian editor Deyda Hydara. The six, convicted in August on baseless charges of sedition, were sentenced to two years in prison but were freed in September after Jammeh, facing considerable domestic and international pressure, issued pardons.

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New York, June 16, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Gambia's national
security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday. The detainees
include leaders of the country's press union and editors of newspapers that
published a union press release criticizing President Yahya Jammeh's recent comments
about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara.

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New York, June 12, 2009--The editor of a private newspaper in the Gambia has been in police custody
since Wednesday because of a story that falsely reported the sacking of two
government officials, according to local journalists.

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Police accused the managing director of the private daily Today with sedition on July 21, following his arrest and questioning three days earlier. Managing Director Abdulhamid Adiamoh told CPJ that he was arrested on July 17 and spent several hours at police headquarters in Banjul.